When husband-and-wife team Molly FitzSimons and Christopher Moore set out to start their own company, they had one goal in mind. “We wanted to create the perfect jobs for ourselves,” explains FitzSimons.

She worked as an interior stylist and possesses an “eye for objects”; her husband studied sculpture at the Rhode Island School of Design.

Noble Goods’ Arrow Board, $120.Kana Okada

The end result was Noble Goods, a Brooklyn-based company that sells cutting boards, furniture and shelving with resin inlaid into the wood. Custom-made cutting boards cost around $120, with bigger items like a solid walnut bruschetta platter priced at $175.

In their three years in business, Noble Goods has quickly grown from a basement in Greenpoint to a studio and woodshop in Williamsburg, and the couple is now looking to expand again.

As FitzSimons says, “It’s a great time to be a designer and maker in New York.”

FitzSimons and Moore are just two of the many New York artists who have found an appetite for locally made furniture and design goods. Most of them start small — working out of their homes and selling at markets like the Brooklyn Flea — and then are often able to scale up, sell to large clients and collaborate with big-name design companies.

HandoutFor his part, Paul Kruger, who makes furniture under the label Fallen Industry, didn’t plan on landing his dream job. In fact, he didn’t know creating wooden pieces was a vocation that could support him in the first place.

Eight years ago, to cope with a rough personal patch, he started taking long walks along the Hudson River, picking up industrial wood to make “weird little sculptures, which became my therapy,” he recalls.

The sculptures turned into small tables, which he realized could earn him an income.

Interest from buyers was robust enough for Kruger to found Fallen Industry, and then move out of the dingy brownstone basement where he worked and into Industry City, a hub for creative companie in Sunset Park. Since then, he’s designed for bars, like Dorlan’s Tavern in the South Street Seaport, as well as restaurants, offices and homes, creating furniture and sculptures from salvaged wood he sources from around the country.

“I considered moving to Portland, Ore., and working there,” he says.

“But in New York City, the demand is there. It’s a city where there’s a consciousness for hand-crafted goods.”

Throughout these companies’ growth, the city itself remains an inspiration.

HandoutPhilip Sachs, who sells screen-printed artwork under the name Sheepshead Design, overlays scenes of the New York skyline onto handmade frames that are stretched with linen. They retail for anywhere between $30 and $200. “I didn’t need formal training to start the business,” he says. “My designs are inspired by what I see around the city.”

Sachs, who started his company out of his Brooklyn apartment and began selling on the streets of SoHo, is now licensing designs to CB2, the modern decor shop run by Crate and Barrel.

“The New York-inspired design speaks to locals, tourist, expats,” he says. “Everyone has a soft spot for NYC.”

Despite their successes, these companies work to stay as local as possible, not wanting to stray far from Brooklyn — the borough that’s emerged as the center of all things handmade.

Adam Finkelman salvages wood pallets from the streets of Brooklyn and turns them into tables for his Yorkwood Co. label.Marcus Ricci

Marcus RicciAdam Finkelman, of Yorkwood Co., makes furniture from shipping pallets he scrounges from around Brooklyn.

He began making furniture in his Williamsburg loft at a time when he was too broke to buy any, deciding to make his own from whatever cheap, readily available material he could find on the street.

“The goal was to build up a community-supported, reclaimed-wood furniture line that was all salvaged in NYC,” he says.

“Brooklyn was an incredibly inspiring place to find local businesses that would provide shipping pallets and to get opportunities at markets to sell the work.”

Brothers Matt and Steve Loftice started their furniture company Recycled Brooklyn five years ago and saw the business “blow up immediately,” says Matt. The brothers work with old doors, reclaimed floor beams and recycled iron to create tables, benches, mirrors, desks, lighting and more.

Bryan ArchboldPrices range from $225 for a side table up to $2,600 for a pine dining table. “We’ve shipped furniture to Tokyo,” says Matt, who noted that the company grew a large audience after it started selling at the Brooklyn Flea. “People like the Brooklyn label.”

These crafters occasionally worry that the vaunted borough name may not shower down profits forever. Explains FitzSimons: “Sometimes we wonder if the ‘made in Brooklyn’ label is sustainable for growth.”

FitzSimons is talking about a challenge most artists in Brooklyn now face: rising rents. “Brooklyn has become the epicenter of culture,” says Steve of Recycled Brooklyn.

You’re surrounded by like-minded individuals, but the downside is that it’s gotten expensive.” Companies are struggling to expand as they realize they’re priced out of neighborhoods they’ve worked in for years.

Recycled Brooklyn, which has grown to 10 employees, had to move from northern Brooklyn to Red Hook. “And now we’re seeing the same type of changes happening in Red Hook,” says Steve.

Fallen Industry’s Kruger is preparing for a rent hike at Industry City from $10 per square foot to $30 in about two years. “I’ve been watching Industry City grow and become hip, which is cool,” he says. “But now it’s expensive.”

Teri Johnson of Harlem Candle Company stays up all night to mold her scented goodies.Anne Wermiel/NY Post

Anne Wermiel/NY PostStill, New York has other neighborhoods willing to take Brooklyn’s creative torch.

“Harlem is such a place of style, and I see it as the next Brooklyn,” says Teri Johnson, founder of the Harlem Candle Company.

Johnson sells at the Sugar Hill Market, which bills itself as Harlem’s first artisan market.

Johnson’s candles are inspired by her travels around the world and cultural icons in the neighborhood, like Billie Holiday and Duke Ellington.

(The “Ellington” luxury candle costs $42.) Her goal is to keep the Harlem name but build the company into a globally-known brand.

Demand for her candles often keeps her up all night, preparing to stock her booth at upcoming markets.

“This is what I signed up for,” she says. “And the energy at the market, the excitement for what I’ve created … it’s worth it.”